I'd probably use substr. For the first 30 characters plus three full stops (untested): $shortstring = substr($longstring,0,30)."...";
The manual shows all the string handling functions http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php Regards Chris Hawk wrote: >Lets say I have a news text, and in a menu, I just want to print the first.. >lets say 30 letters, and maybe add a "..." after, and link it to the full >text. > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
